Paragraph 4
England, Wales and Scotland
In the case of a payment under Parts 11 to 12ZB F1or 12ZD of the Contributions and Benefits Act F2 or any remuneration paid by or on behalf of an employer to the claimant who for the time being is unable to work due to illness or maternity or who is taking paternity leave F3, shared parental leave F4, parental bereavement leave F5, adoption leave F6or neonatal care leave—
any amount deducted by way of primary Class 1 contributions under the Contributions and Benefits Act;
one-half of any sum paid by the claimant by way of a contribution towards an occupational or personal pension scheme.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Sch. 8 para. 4 inserted (6.4.2020) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/354), regs. 1, 19(6)(a)(i)
- F2
Part 12ZB was inserted by the Employment Act 2002, section 4 and amended by the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), section 722 and paragraphs 169 and 184 of Schedule 6, the Work and Families Act 2006, sections 2 and 11(1) and paragraph 21 of Schedule 1, the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), section 2 and paragraphs 142, 149 and 150, the Act section 67 and Schedule 8, S.I. 2006/1031 and S.I. 2006/2012.
- F3
Words in Sch. 8 para. 4 inserted (31.12.2014) by The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3255), arts. 1(2), 20(9)(a)
- F4
Words in Sch. 8 para. 4 inserted (6.4.2020) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/354), regs. 1, 19(6)(a)(ii)
- F5
Sch. 8 para. 4: comma substituted for word (6.4.2025) by The Neonatal Care Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/201), regs. 1(2), 14(7)(a)
- F6
Words in Sch. 8 para. 4 inserted (6.4.2025) by The Neonatal Care Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/201), regs. 1(2), 14(7)(b)
Notes on the whole SI
Textual amendments
- F1
Section 3(3) is cited for the power to prescribe a payment under paragraph (b) of the definition of “pension payment”.
- F2
Section 22 is cited insofar as it relates to paragraphs 1 to 3, 6, 7, 8(1), 9 and 10 of Schedule 2.
- F3
Section 24(1) is cited for the definition of “employment” and “employed”, “period of limited capability for work”, “prescribed”, “regulations” and “week”.
- F4
Paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 1 is cited for the definition of “couple”, “education” and “remunerative work”.
- F5
- F6
- F7